Had the same thing happen. I tossed the radar detector in the sleeper before the cop got to the truck. When he got to the door I started asking him if he seen the deer that jumped into the road. He said no. Told him that if he wasn't tailgating me he would have seen them. He just walked away
Since the sleeper is considered a personal residence, police aren't allowed to check unless if they have a warrant. He must've not had a warrant, since he didn't check the sleeper. That is the perfect excuse for slowing down: saying a deer crossed the road. Therefore, if there was a deer, you would've had to slow down, because, common sense. If the cop was beside the truck, it would've been considered a foiled excuse. That is what I call being a savage.
Made me think of when my dad hauled LP gas, every morning a city cop would tuck in very close behind my dad just trying to rattle him into doing something stupid. One morning as usual this happened, but this time a young kid was riding his bike to school near an intersection, the cop was so close to dad he could not see the kid. Dad braked hard where upon the cop threw on his lights to pull dad over. Running up to the cab yelling at dad that he had almost caused the cop to slide into the back of dad's truck. Dad keeping his cool simply said, "I guess you were following too close for safety and did not see that kid almost cross the road in front of me. Cop simply turned around tucked tail between his legs walking back to his car. The cop never bothered my dad again.
He should've taken that BIG ticket to court, and claimed that the cop was following too close. Which is a hazard and against the law. A win win in my book.
Similar story is the cop would sneak up on a truck with all his lights off and pace the truck from a few feet behind the trailer. There was just enough moonlight the truck driver could catch the odd shadow of him back there. Driver dynamites the trailer brakes, stupid cop runs into trailer, driver reapplies air to trailer and off he goes. He gets pulled over down the road and his response to "why didn't you stop at the accident scene didn't you feel the car hit you?" "I never saw any headlights so I thought it was just another bump in the road"
I drove truck full time for twelve years and part time for 6 or 8 years while working as a mechanic. I am not an old grizzled veteran but saw my share. I see most cops as predatory and do not trust them. As to truck driving. Glad I did it but never going back. Met a good woman now and want to settle down if possible. Trucking life is not conducive to that. Might consider it part time again. Many respects to Truckers. We need them far more than we need cops if you ask me.
Got passed by a cop car about a year ago. I had 63 EUR pallets (120x80cm) with paint so I was fully loaded and weighed 40 tons. He passed at about 90km/h when I was doing about 75km/h in an 80 zone, in a downhill, got in my lane about 15 meters in front of me slammed on the brakes down to about 55-60km/h, indicated right and got into the lane for the off-ramp. Had I been a fraction of a second too late I would have slammed into the rear of the cop car. I slammed on my air horn and he responded with blue lights.
good videos. I'm taking my course in a couple weeks. I'm pretty nervous but these vids reassure me. I'm in the mountains of southern B.C. and already have job offers coming at me. I'm more excited than nervous now so thank you.
+mikey hulk good luck be driving a big rig just isn't what it use to be. many companies lie to you about home time, PAY, they lie lie lie. big time. think about it,,, they want you because the drivers in the know stay away. but you will have a good time at first and then you will realize that you have to put 1 to 2 years in driving OTR just to find something local and much better. and remember no matter what your dispatcher says to you go by the book know the rules well. take your breaks. DOT don't care what the companies what you to do. and don't use your cell without a good blue tooth. get blue parrot u will be glad you did I promise. hit me up if you like to know more or just want to talk. ask experience drivers about companies. good ones and bad ones.
i was laughing before you said what happened to cop as was thinking cop ended up hitting back of trailer Thanks for a great story its put a smile on my face
March 1973, Moncton, NB. In a heavy snow storm, driving my 1973 Plymouth Fury II equipped with 4 new heavy lug snows, through the Town of Dieppe, Town police cruiser(PC) suddenly appeared from behind and activated the emergency lights. I immediately signaled to pull to the curb and stopped. As I watched the rear-view, the PC kept coming. He could not stop on the slippery road. $700 damage to my car. 1973 Dodge Monaco totalled! Officer remained in PC. I went to the passenger side seat, introduced myself and asked, "What's the problem Officer?" He responded with, "I'm writing you up for dangerous driving." There was a knock on my side window. I opened the door to have the Chief ask, "What's going on here?" So I told him. To which he responded, "THERE WILL BE NO TICKETS TONIGHT!!"
That’s almost like the time back in 80 I was on a dedicated run hauling the US Mail for a contractor late on a Saturday night when I had a drunk in an old Plymouth fury get in behind me with his high beams on and right up in the mirrors. No matter what I did to shake this guy he stayed right on my tail. He followed me for almost a hundred miles till a friend of mine told me a way to get rid of him. He told me that since I was driving a 73 F model Mack that since I had to use the engine stop to shut off the engine that all the key did was turn off the power going to the brake lights and he said to get that puppy rolling as fast as I could then turn off the key and yank down hard on the trailer brake lever till the wheels locked up and smoked the tires and sure enough the lights went to the side and solved that problem
I have been watching your videos and I love how you talk slower and your stories and makes you want to listen to the very end you're funny in a lot of ways that we love your instructional videos keep them coming especially I am a new CDL driver I am fixing to go to work for a company driving a 18 wheeler. I am a 58 year old female and I have had my CDL license now for one month so I am fresh out of CDL driving to school but I am a good safe driver and I am wanting to learn all I can thank you for all your videos keep them coming we love them.
"OOOOHHH Great !!! an old woman driving a big rig !!!!" soaringtractor, that "old woman"? Don't judge someone without knowing them first you fool. She may be a better driver than you think.
In Ontario the OPP ( Ontario Provincial Police ) has a radar detector detector ( made by bell electronics ) installed in the police cars. The officer's detector can detect the radar detector's oscillator cristal frequency. If you turn your detector off the police can't detect your radar. If he can see it, he will charge you with possession charge, it falls under the criminal act, not a driving violation. By the way in Ontario the police radar power is much higher than in the USA. They don't have to worry to outsmart the radar detector owners. You can pick up an OPP radar over a Mile a way, in an open area. He has to be right beside you to pick up your radar detector signal. Don't ask me how I know !.
I was heading North up the Grapevine and Silver Shadow got out of his patrol car. As he did I came awful close to his patrol car door because he wasn't thinking. I got on the radio and mentioned I almost took off the CHP's door. Little did I know his partner was still in the car and got on the radio to tell me if I had taken off his partner's door they would have come to get me. One of the other drivers chimed in and said, "It would have been a cold chase with no door". LOL
Here's a story for ya. *Coming thru Everett WA had to pee like a racehorse. Closed scale coming up. Jake up and blew past chicken coop at over 20MPH when I FIRST SAW the parked WSP car. Parked and did my business. Trooper was either napping or didn't give a hoot IDK but I LUCKED OUT. NEVER pulled that agin!!!*
Our transport driver got hauled into jail driving 105 miles an hour.2am between Kingman and Wickinburg on 93 hauling a 637.Don't tell me Caterpillar engines dont deliver.
Those cops would never have caught me. Even when I had a radar detector, I wouldn't hit the brakes just because the detector went off (for exactly this reason, BTW). What I MIGHT do is let off the gas, at most. But I wouldn't just get on the binders for no reason, and especially if the detector instantaneously goes from 0 to 100%.
That kinda sounds like me up on I-80 in western Nebraska realy late in the night....hadn't seen a set of headlights for miles...& then one appeared & guess whoo it was.?? Mr. smokey bear...I got a ticket that night,lol...Nothin more to say,lol..love your videos..
Those Cops can really get dirty. I was going west through Indiana about 1:AM and boy we had a line of trucks, and this darn smokey rolling the hammer lane without any lights on at all trying to be sneaky, and when he rolled past me I just happened to look and see him so we all started talking on the squawk box about that dirty sucker trying to entrap us and just when that Cop got even with the drives on the truck ahead of me, to mess with him that driver hit his left turn on and started moving to the left, and that smokey looked like Sherrif Buford T Justice peeing like a possum he not only pulled that truck but 4 of us, and when his backup got there and all of us saying the Cop traveled west on the interstate at 1:AM with no lights in the hammer lane, he got the reprimand and we got to go, but every time I ran through there after I watched my P's and Q's Boy I could write a book might be a bestseller and I bet you could to... I really enjoy watching your videos, I wish more like us were still out there. God Bless..
he deserved it. I had one tailgating me I was in my pickup truck and someone blew a stop sign and he ended up stuck under the rear bumper of my truck. We were literally hooked bumper to push bumper.
The trucker should have thrown his radar detecter into his sleeper because the peace officers are not allowed to go into there. The sleeper is classified as your home and I was told this right from a DOT.
Actually in Canada its true. The sleeper is a legal residence and they can't search it without a warrant, they can however search the truck cab on probable cause. The only folks who can go into the sleeper without a warrant are Border officals. Its the same with RV's to. They can search the cab but not the house portion.
If they want to search your bunk they'll search it. They'll detain you and apply for a warrant, which they'll get. In the meantime, your rig has been towed to their detachment. They get the warrant and they are in your bunk and any where else they want. "Yes sir, no sir, 3 bags full sir" will keep you out of shit.
No, they need to express a suspicion that your sleeper contains something pertaining to an offence. Warrants will be issued within hours in some cases or as much as a week depending on who the Justice is.
I live in Manitoba and cops here like to drive as close as they possibly can to you. One night I was driving home from work and had a cop tailgating me and then this rabbit jumped out on to the road out of nowhere so I hit brakes and veered left to avoid it and the cop slammed theirs and ended up on the curb. They didn't flick on their lights so I kept going but they sure as hell didn't tailgate me after that.
Back in the 70's Bird Dogs (radar detectors) were illegal in Virginia. We used to keep a box of tissues on the dash with a little hole in the side, stick the bird dog down in there pointing out the hole and put the tissues back over the top of it. :)
pulled my pickup into the truck stop in Armarilo after a non stop from Miami, got in the back and pull the hard bed cover down, but didn't latch it and took a nap, well my Rugger black hawk came up faster than my eye lids when somebody opened that lid just inches from a guys face screaming "dont shoot Texas Ranger, don't shoot" Dammed I dropped that pistol like it bit me and seemed like a whole minute with both our hands above our head before he said "you scared the shit out a me" told him he did me too , already on his way trotting Into the building with a brown spot back of his pants ,saying "I mean it'
i once had a radar detector, but i made the mistake of going over a Tenn. scale with it on my dash. the police took it and ticketed me. after that i no longer needed one, as being a company driver, the trucks are governed for a certain speed, and i couldn't, except in Calif, go over the truck speed limit.
happened to me in PEI got to a stop sign , and mine went to the red so as i looked to see where he was , still at the stop sign ,,,, i herd knock knock on my door, lol scared the sh** out of me ,,, nice cop, no fine, just told me i was not allowed to use them in PEI and to unplug it until i caught the ferry ( before the bridge ),lol
I did the same thing in my pickup to a Nebraska state trooper. Thanksgiving morning 1985. The first thing I did was knock the detector off the dash while I was stopping. The officer asked me if my radar detector usually worked better on the floor. Kind of a hard question to answer. He gave me a warning. Nebraska state troopers are the best.
That's funny! I once sat and shot the breeze with a Nebraska trooper that was running North Platte eastbound coupe in the middle of the night. He was an excellent guy! Dave
Driver: I hit the brakes due to several deer jumping out in front of me. And of course, by the time the cop comes to my door, the detector is off the dash & out of sight. And isn't tail gating illegal, if not hazardous to ones health.....like yours officer?
That's why tailgating is illegal (although RARELY ENFORCED) and is dangerous to do. But, yet another 🐷 thinking he's above the, did it anyways and learned a hard lesson. That's why even cops should obey the laws and follow the safe guidelines set by state, (which most don't anyway.
this story reminds me of the time i hauled a super secret load for the dod and had seals in back guarding it. it was so super secret i was allowed to blow by ws doing 70 in the left lane of a 55mph just to get the load there. true story.....(eye roll)....
That happens like crazy. Now I don't recommend this, but here's what I did. Sometime ago I was coming out of Mobile, Al. on I-165 towards Montgomery, Al. I was driving a Mustang, with Texas tags. I could not see the police car front grill behind me in the rear view mirror. I was doing the speed limit and in the right hand lane. Cruise Control set so I would maintain constant rate of speed. For about three miles this guy wasn't backing off. I reached down and grab my cell phone and held it up, so he could see it; as if I was snapping pictures. It was amazing how fast he backed off. To make the story better. Now remind you a was in the right hand lane already. This police car driver passed me on the right side ( emergency lane ) and his back end slipped slideways away from me thank goodness. He gained control and finally disappeared. There needs to be a crack down on roadway police bullying.
I would have stashed the bird dog in my refrigerator to cool it down and when the cop tried to ask why I dynamited the brakes I would have asked him, "Didn't you see that deer run out in front of me?" and explain that it was illegal to be following at such an unsafe close distance.
I had a kinda similar incident one night while hauling U. S. Mail trailers loaded with Mail for a contract carrier. I don’t know if you know that while hauling Mail on a schedule run, and they all are, you do not need to stop at weigh stations or even have a log book! Cause your every move in on schedule, plus can never be overload cause every pallet or buggy loaded with Mail is passed over a continuous scale as your loaded! So anyways here I am tooling along at a strictly enforced speed limited run, I drive right by a portable weight station, as directed by the drivers handbook for contract carriers hauling for the U. S. Postal Service. Now don’t you know there was a rookie cop that made it his business to fly out and apprehend me!!!! He came you on me so fast with his flashers and high beams and gum balls on! Right on my ass!! So when I went to hit the brakes, it is also known by the carriers that you should always use the trailers trolley brakes as often as possible cause they are always in top condition and why waste the tractor brakes. But when I went to hit the trolley lever my hand slipped from hanging up the CB mic. and kind of really hit the brakes to the point of locking them up for about 20’ or so of skid marks in the hyw and 6” in his shorts!! Plus he did hit the DOT bar! Not enough to damage the heavy grill guard the state cruisers have, thank goodness cause he really hit! Wow was he pissed! But it was his fault! So after some contention and back and forth with me telling him and showing the U. S. Mail timing slip, plus a radio call to his watch Commanders radio, he was advised to let me go! Right away!! That was a great feeling and a great no touch driving job that was mostly just pin to pin! With no log books!! Just a tractor inspection report that gets signed by the fleet mechanic on every trip! Plus the pay is the same as the Service would have to pay a Postal Driver, which is pretty good! Especially considering you do not touch anything in the trailer and the drivers break rooms are very nice! For me it was really nice cause I was able to use a sleeper from the fleet! Plus the dispatch made sure and kept great track of your time, back then it was the same 10/15 in a 24 hr period. Ten hrs driving in a 15 hr shift! But it was all at night. Which is good and bad! Good because there is a lot less traffic, bad during daylight savings in the fall and winter, when you leave the house in darkness and come home as the sun comes up! So it’s like being a vampire! You have to sleep during the day. But in the summer? It’s great cause you get to see every sunset and sunrise!
The cop should have charged for dangerous driving as well. Cops seem to think because they have a shinny badge they can do whatever they want to which can cause major harm or even death.
p.s. should have realized something was going on when me and another driver at first break walked passed the receptionist desk and saw a small paper with 8 names on it and hand written next to each one of the names was the word quit.(KOLD TRANSPOT)
Had the same thing happen. I tossed the radar detector in the sleeper before the cop got to the truck. When he got to the door I started asking him if he seen the deer that jumped into the road. He said no. Told him that if he wasn't tailgating me he would have seen them. He just walked away
Since the sleeper is considered a personal residence, police aren't allowed to check unless if they have a warrant. He must've not had a warrant, since he didn't check the sleeper. That is the perfect excuse for slowing down: saying a deer crossed the road. Therefore, if there was a deer, you would've had to slow down, because, common sense. If the cop was beside the truck, it would've been considered a foiled excuse. That is what I call being a savage.
Made me think of when my dad hauled LP gas, every morning a city cop would tuck in very close behind my dad just trying to rattle him into doing something stupid. One morning as usual this happened, but this time a young kid was riding his bike to school near an intersection, the cop was so close to dad he could not see the kid. Dad braked hard where upon the cop threw on his lights to pull dad over. Running up to the cab yelling at dad that he had almost caused the cop to slide into the back of dad's truck. Dad keeping his cool simply said, "I guess you were following too close for safety and did not see that kid almost cross the road in front of me. Cop simply turned around tucked tail between his legs walking back to his car. The cop never bothered my dad again.
You sir, are an excellent story teller. I enjoyed that story. I could easily visualize that entire story in my head.
Cop deserves the accidental brake check for following too close.
Hey stranger!
He should've taken that BIG ticket to court, and claimed that the cop was following too close. Which is a hazard and against the law. A win win in my book.
Cop shouldn't've been tailgating
+TheTruckertodd45
gotta agree! Dave
Yes, the cop should have been wrote up AND ticketed for tailgating.
Well, it's the cop's fault for following so closely. You'd think a cop would know better than to tailgate.
He must have been a rookie Cop....lol....should have told him, "didn't you see that deer?"......lol.....
Timmy Gee Yes, probably new, but that guy could have easily got himself killed from tailgating... he should have known better. (Dave)
Similar story is the cop would sneak up on a truck with all his lights off and pace the truck from a few feet behind the trailer. There was just enough moonlight the truck driver could catch the odd shadow of him back there. Driver dynamites the trailer brakes, stupid cop runs into trailer, driver reapplies air to trailer and off he goes. He gets pulled over down the road and his response to "why didn't you stop at the accident scene didn't you feel the car hit you?" "I never saw any headlights so I thought it was just another bump in the road"
LOL
It was a bump in the road with four tires.
I drove truck full time for twelve years and part time for 6 or 8 years while working as a mechanic. I am not an old grizzled veteran but saw my share. I see most cops as predatory and do not trust them. As to truck driving. Glad I did it but never going back. Met a good woman now and want to settle down if possible. Trucking life is not conducive to that. Might consider it part time again. Many respects to Truckers. We need them far more than we need cops if you ask me.
your one of the few that actually know what we go thru day in day out.thanks for the comment
Got passed by a cop car about a year ago. I had 63 EUR pallets (120x80cm) with paint so I was fully loaded and weighed 40 tons. He passed at about 90km/h when I was doing about 75km/h in an 80 zone, in a downhill, got in my lane about 15 meters in front of me slammed on the brakes down to about 55-60km/h, indicated right and got into the lane for the off-ramp. Had I been a fraction of a second too late I would have slammed into the rear of the cop car. I slammed on my air horn and he responded with blue lights.
Boyd should've told the cop he seen a deer jump in front of him is why he hit his brakes hard and hid the radar detector in his suitcase lol
Learned a lot from this man rest in peace dave ❤
So, did the cop write himself a ticket for tailgating while he had the book and pen warmed up?
+Element of Kindness Of course not, cops are always in the right, aren't they? Dave
good videos. I'm taking my course in a couple weeks. I'm pretty nervous but these vids reassure me. I'm in the mountains of southern B.C. and already have job offers coming at me. I'm more excited than nervous now so thank you.
+mikey hulk If you're in B,C. it's especially important to take your time on those mountain roads. Dave
+mikey hulk good luck be driving a big rig just isn't what it use to be. many companies lie to you about home time, PAY, they lie lie lie. big time. think about it,,, they want you because the drivers in the know stay away. but you will have a good time at first and then you will realize that you have to put 1 to 2 years in driving OTR just to find something local and much better. and remember no matter what your dispatcher says to you go by the book know the rules well. take your breaks. DOT don't care what the companies what you to do. and don't use your cell without a good blue tooth. get blue parrot u will be glad you did I promise. hit me up if you like to know more or just want to talk. ask experience drivers about companies. good ones and bad ones.
i was laughing before you said what happened to cop as was thinking cop ended up hitting back of trailer
Thanks for a great story its put a smile on my face
Love your old school stories keep it up
love that!!! thanks for sharing. we need more of this so they can leave us alone lol
March 1973, Moncton, NB. In a heavy snow storm, driving my 1973 Plymouth Fury II equipped with 4 new heavy lug snows, through the Town of Dieppe, Town police cruiser(PC) suddenly appeared from behind and activated the emergency lights. I immediately signaled to pull to the curb and stopped. As I watched the rear-view, the PC kept coming. He could not stop on the slippery road. $700 damage to my car. 1973 Dodge Monaco totalled! Officer remained in PC. I went to the passenger side seat, introduced myself and asked, "What's the problem Officer?" He responded with, "I'm writing you up for dangerous driving." There was a knock on my side window. I opened the door to have the Chief ask, "What's going on here?" So I told him. To which he responded, "THERE WILL BE NO TICKETS TONIGHT!!"
Ive been driving for 30 years and I've heard this story so many times in so many states with so many versions, this happen alot lol.
Love the old stories, I wish you would do a video, with some of the old timers, just talking about the old days.
That’s almost like the time back in 80 I was on a dedicated run hauling the US Mail for a contractor late on a Saturday night when I had a drunk in an old Plymouth fury get in behind me with his high beams on and right up in the mirrors. No matter what I did to shake this guy he stayed right on my tail. He followed me for almost a hundred miles till a friend of mine told me a way to get rid of him. He told me that since I was driving a 73 F model Mack that since I had to use the engine stop to shut off the engine that all the key did was turn off the power going to the brake lights and he said to get that puppy rolling as fast as I could then turn off the key and yank down hard on the trailer brake lever till the wheels locked up and smoked the tires and sure enough the lights went to the side and solved that problem
I have been watching your videos and I love how you talk slower and your stories and makes you want to listen to the very end you're funny in a lot of ways that we love your instructional videos keep them coming especially I am a new CDL driver I am fixing to go to work for a company driving a 18 wheeler. I am a 58 year old female and I have had my CDL license now for one month so I am fresh out of CDL driving to school but I am a good safe driver and I am wanting to learn all I can thank you for all your videos keep them coming we love them.
Ann Jackson Glad you're getting some value from the videos, Ann. Keep us posted on your career. Congratulations on your accomplishment. (Dave)
well you've had your licence a couple of years now, how is it going out there..?
"OOOOHHH Great !!! an old woman driving a big rig !!!!"
soaringtractor, that "old woman"? Don't judge someone without knowing them first you fool. She may be a better driver than you think.
In Ontario the OPP ( Ontario Provincial Police ) has a radar detector detector ( made by bell electronics ) installed in the police cars.
The officer's detector can detect the radar detector's oscillator cristal frequency.
If you turn your detector off the police can't detect your radar.
If he can see it, he will charge you with possession charge, it falls under the criminal act, not a driving violation.
By the way in Ontario the police radar power is much higher than in the USA.
They don't have to worry to outsmart the radar detector owners.
You can pick up an OPP radar over a Mile a way, in an open area.
He has to be right beside you to pick up your radar detector signal.
Don't ask me how I know !.
Imagine that, a cop breaking the law by tailgating himself, just to write a ticket! Should be legal to write the cop one too!
The person behind is always responsible for the accident serves the cop right 😂😂😂
I was heading North up the Grapevine and Silver Shadow got out of his patrol car. As he did I came awful close to his patrol car door because he wasn't thinking. I got on the radio and mentioned I almost took off the CHP's door. Little did I know his partner was still in the car and got on the radio to tell me if I had taken off his partner's door they would have come to get me. One of the other drivers chimed in and said, "It would have been a cold chase with no door". LOL
Drafty, to say the least! Dave
Smoky was "butt hurt" for sure
Those were the days... Miss them.
Good story.
Be safe
Roll on
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Here's a story for ya. *Coming thru Everett WA had to pee like a racehorse. Closed scale coming up. Jake up and blew past chicken coop at over 20MPH when I FIRST SAW the parked WSP car. Parked and did my business. Trooper was either napping or didn't give a hoot IDK but I LUCKED OUT. NEVER pulled that agin!!!*
Our transport driver got hauled into jail driving 105 miles an hour.2am between Kingman and Wickinburg on 93 hauling a 637.Don't tell me Caterpillar engines dont deliver.
Still have 1 of my old radar detector from back in the day.
Morning buddy thanks for the information looking forward getting my class A
I whould have said that was the biggest Elk ever! glad I missed it!! Did you hit it officer? LoL
Gosh lol I just imagine cop reaction. A Big scared, Big laugh and Big ticket lmao.
Enjoyed the story!
It must be a lonely job riding the streets, over and over again. It tear down your mind.
That was a really funny story. Thanks for sharing.
Glad you liked it!
Smokey needed a diaper change after that 😂😂😂😂😂
10dash4! Dave
Jassi Brar aha Lol 😂
LOL great story...lesson learned!
Sounds like the cop came very close to winning a Darwin award.
My dad told me that story when I was younger of a driver doing the same thing. I am 29, wondering if that was the same guy lol.
That's why you don't tailgate a big rig!
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Those cops would never have caught me. Even when I had a radar detector, I wouldn't hit the brakes just because the detector went off (for exactly this reason, BTW). What I MIGHT do is let off the gas, at most. But I wouldn't just get on the binders for no reason, and especially if the detector instantaneously goes from 0 to 100%.
Truckers are the backbone of industry mobility
That kinda sounds like me up on I-80 in western Nebraska realy late in the night....hadn't seen a set of headlights for miles...& then one appeared & guess whoo it was.?? Mr. smokey bear...I got a ticket that night,lol...Nothin more to say,lol..love your videos..
Those Cops can really get dirty. I was going west through Indiana about 1:AM and boy we had a line of trucks, and this darn smokey rolling the hammer lane without any lights on at all trying to be sneaky, and when he rolled past me I just happened to look and see him so we all started talking on the squawk box about that dirty sucker trying to entrap us and just when that Cop got even with the drives on the truck ahead of me, to mess with him that driver hit his left turn on and started moving to the left, and that smokey looked like Sherrif Buford T Justice peeing like a possum he not only pulled that truck but 4 of us, and when his backup got there and all of us saying the Cop traveled west on the interstate at 1:AM with no lights in the hammer lane, he got the reprimand and we got to go, but every time I ran through there after I watched my P's and Q's Boy I could write a book might be a bestseller and I bet you could to... I really enjoy watching your videos, I wish more like us were still out there. God Bless..
Drive safe David, and definitely watch out in Indiana! Dave
Thanks Dave I appreciate you, and you stay safe in your local job, I don't think I can sit still to long !!
I love to hear accents from all states.
Great story
And a true story.:)
He's a Canadian trucker.
Thanks for sharing
thank you ..........
In Connecticut 20+ years ago cops had detected in their vehicles that will detect the radar detectors
he deserved it. I had one tailgating me I was in my pickup truck and someone blew a stop sign and he ended up stuck under the rear bumper of my truck. We were literally hooked bumper to push bumper.
There was a lot of toggle switches used to break the brake lights for Va. in the day
The world is being kept safe from speeders. Meanwhile, the politicians are running wild. Have a nice day.
My grandmas car is in the video. On the beginning picture. (Forget the word lol)
Great story...
Thanks! dave
The trucker should have thrown his radar detecter into his sleeper because the peace officers are not allowed to go into there. The sleeper is classified as your home and I was told this right from a DOT.
Actually in Canada its true. The sleeper is a legal residence and they can't search it without a warrant, they can however search the truck cab on probable cause. The only folks who can go into the sleeper without a warrant are Border officals. Its the same with RV's to. They can search the cab but not the house portion.
If they want to search your bunk they'll search it. They'll detain you and apply for a warrant, which they'll get. In the meantime, your rig has been towed to their detachment. They get the warrant and they are in your bunk and any where else they want. "Yes sir, no sir, 3 bags full sir" will keep you out of shit.
Wayne Wilkie they have to have a damn good probable cause to get a warrant! A warrant is not something you can just get anytime you feel like.
lol good one, what country do you live in
No, they need to express a suspicion that your sleeper contains something pertaining to an offence. Warrants will be issued within hours in some cases or as much as a week depending on who the Justice is.
I live in Manitoba and cops here like to drive as close as they possibly can to you. One night I was driving home from work and had a cop tailgating me and then this rabbit jumped out on to the road out of nowhere so I hit brakes and veered left to avoid it and the cop slammed theirs and ended up on the curb. They didn't flick on their lights so I kept going but they sure as hell didn't tailgate me after that.
Back in the 70's Bird Dogs (radar detectors) were illegal in Virginia. We used to keep a box of tissues on the dash with a little hole in the side, stick the bird dog down in there pointing out the hole and put the tissues back over the top of it. :)
they still are illegal in Virginia. I know, I live in Va.
Why a hole? Are you trying to tell us the cardboard box stops radar energy?
amblt1 a box of tissues on the dash is less obvious looking than a radar detector
Lol good story wish I could been there.
Lol so awesome
pulled my pickup into the truck stop in Armarilo after a non stop from Miami, got in the back and pull the hard bed cover down, but didn't latch it and took a nap, well my Rugger black hawk came up faster than my eye lids when somebody opened that lid just inches from a guys face screaming "dont shoot Texas Ranger, don't shoot" Dammed I dropped that pistol like it bit me and seemed like a whole minute with both our hands above our head before he said "you scared the shit out a me" told him he did me too , already on his way trotting Into the building with a brown spot back of his pants ,saying "I mean it'
Wow! Dave
you can give me a ticket, you can give lecture, NOT BOTH . I'm only taking one.
+rocky 33 You *must be a new driver. In the Real World you get BOTH.*
+Howard Fortyfive negative, you must be a sissy.
Lesson learned.
i once had a radar detector, but i made the mistake of going over a Tenn. scale with it on my dash. the police took it and ticketed me. after that i no longer needed one, as being a company driver, the trucks are governed for a certain speed, and i couldn't, except in Calif, go over the truck speed limit.
Going after pro drivers when they are least likely to cause an accident, serves him right
Ya right I am pretty sure that Smokies underwear matches brown trousers after that.
happened to me in PEI got to a stop sign , and mine went to the red so as i looked to see where he was , still at the stop sign ,,,, i herd knock knock on my door, lol scared the sh** out of me ,,, nice cop, no fine, just told me i was not allowed to use them in PEI and to unplug it until i caught the ferry ( before the bridge ),lol
LOVE IT.
I did the same thing in my pickup to a Nebraska state trooper. Thanksgiving morning 1985. The first thing I did was knock the detector off the dash while I was stopping. The officer asked me if my radar detector usually worked better on the floor. Kind of a hard question to answer. He gave me a warning. Nebraska state troopers are the best.
That's funny! I once sat and shot the breeze with a Nebraska trooper that was running North Platte eastbound coupe in the middle of the night. He was an excellent guy! Dave
Driver: I hit the brakes due to several deer jumping out in front of me. And of course, by the time the cop comes to my door, the detector is off the dash & out of sight. And isn't tail gating illegal, if not hazardous to ones health.....like yours officer?
I'm just curious, how the hell do you drive safely, sitting so low and the steering wheel so high and out of position?
David Gentry
can't dude, but ya gotta look cool.
Served the cop right. NOW if 4-wheelers would learn the same thing.
great story.
Oh NO !!!! I thought it would have a HAPPY ENDING... No ditch?
That's why tailgating is illegal (although RARELY ENFORCED) and is dangerous to do. But, yet another 🐷 thinking he's above the, did it anyways and learned a hard lesson. That's why even cops should obey the laws and follow the safe guidelines set by state, (which most don't anyway.
this story reminds me of the time i hauled a super secret load for the dod and had seals in back guarding it. it was so super secret i was allowed to blow by ws doing 70 in the left lane of a 55mph just to get the load there.
true story.....(eye roll)....
I heard one similar, lol. Teach him to be a better driver.
always install brake light switch on a fast truck...
The pig was following too close!!
Love that story lol
Well now you be advised to have a rear view camera.... so you know whats on your 6 !
That happens like crazy. Now I don't recommend this, but here's what I did. Sometime ago I was coming out of Mobile, Al. on I-165 towards Montgomery, Al. I was driving a Mustang, with Texas tags. I could not see the police car front grill behind me in the rear view mirror. I was doing the speed limit and in the right hand lane. Cruise Control set so I would maintain constant rate of speed. For about three miles this guy wasn't backing off. I reached down and grab my cell phone and held it up, so he could see it; as if I was snapping pictures. It was amazing how fast he backed off. To make the story better. Now remind you a was in the right hand lane already. This police car driver passed me on the right side ( emergency lane ) and his back end slipped slideways away from me thank goodness. He gained control and finally disappeared. There needs to be a crack down on roadway police bullying.
I would have stashed the bird dog in my refrigerator to cool it down and when the cop tried to ask why I dynamited the brakes I would have asked him, "Didn't you see that deer run out in front of me?" and explain that it was illegal to be following at such an unsafe close distance.
The charge is " Following too closely", sir.
I had a kinda similar incident one night while hauling U. S. Mail trailers loaded with Mail for a contract carrier. I don’t know if you know that while hauling Mail on a schedule run, and they all are, you do not need to stop at weigh stations or even have a log book! Cause your every move in on schedule, plus can never be overload cause every pallet or buggy loaded with Mail is passed over a continuous scale as your loaded! So anyways here I am tooling along at a strictly enforced speed limited run, I drive right by a portable weight station, as directed by the drivers handbook for contract carriers hauling for the U. S. Postal Service. Now don’t you know there was a rookie cop that made it his business to fly out and apprehend me!!!! He came you on me so fast with his flashers and high beams and gum balls on! Right on my ass!! So when I went to hit the brakes, it is also known by the carriers that you should always use the trailers trolley brakes as often as possible cause they are always in top condition and why waste the tractor brakes. But when I went to hit the trolley lever my hand slipped from hanging up the CB mic. and kind of really hit the brakes to the point of locking them up for about 20’ or so of skid marks in the hyw and 6” in his shorts!! Plus he did hit the DOT bar! Not enough to damage the heavy grill guard the state cruisers have, thank goodness cause he really hit! Wow was he pissed! But it was his fault! So after some contention and back and forth with me telling him and showing the U. S. Mail timing slip, plus a radio call to his watch Commanders radio, he was advised to let me go! Right away!! That was a great feeling and a great no touch driving job that was mostly just pin to pin! With no log books!! Just a tractor inspection report that gets signed by the fleet mechanic on every trip! Plus the pay is the same as the Service would have to pay a Postal Driver, which is pretty good! Especially considering you do not touch anything in the trailer and the drivers break rooms are very nice! For me it was really nice cause I was able to use a sleeper from the fleet! Plus the dispatch made sure and kept great track of your time, back then it was the same 10/15 in a 24 hr period. Ten hrs driving in a 15 hr shift! But it was all at night. Which is good and bad! Good because there is a lot less traffic, bad during daylight savings in the fall and winter, when you leave the house in darkness and come home as the sun comes up! So it’s like being a vampire! You have to sleep during the day. But in the summer? It’s great cause you get to see every sunset and sunrise!
I didn't know that about hauling mail! I think you're joshing me. Dave
I kind of want to slam on my brakes hard when people are behind me way too close just they know for next time to back off
hey im from manitoba haha :) nice story
You no what would be funny, to see the dash cam
that is why u should never tailgate another vehicle especially a big rig
Nice move!!!
he should have said, did you see that deer, lucky I didn't hit him
Cops in America will do anything to give you a ticket
it's against the law to follow anyone that close, wonder if he would have hit ass end of that truck.., what excuse would cop give in court ?
in my thirty years of trucking the one thing that I have learned is when they make sure that they tell you it's a true story it's not
The cop should have charged for dangerous driving as well. Cops seem to think because they have a shinny badge they can do whatever they want to which can cause major harm or even death.
That was a funny as f!ck story
p.s. should have realized something was going on when me and another driver at first break walked passed the receptionist desk and saw a small paper with 8 names on it and hand written next to each one of the names was the word quit.(KOLD TRANSPOT)
that was a good story
lol . people dont realized that fully loaded 18wheelers cant stop on a dime....... in case thier loads shift.
Good stuff but please turn the music down.